In Their Own Words:
Biographical Notes

Robert Henry Wilds, Jr.

Born: May 28, 1916

Manilla, The Philippines

Father: Robert Henry Wilds

(1883-1949)

Mother: Annabelle Ashley

(1880-1922)

Married: Irene H. Clark in 1939

Military Service: Co-pilot
Army Air Force, WW2

Children: none

Photographs

School Transcripts

Letters 1939

Letters 1941-1949

Died: November 21, 1944
shot down over Yugoslavia in a B-24 Liberator bomber with the loss of all nine men aboard

Obituary

Promotion Certificate

Purple Heart

Harvard World War II Memorial

Gravestone: Plot A, Row 4, Grave 46
U.S. Military Cemetery, Florence, Italy